Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period

Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period is an interactive novel with hundreds of possible storylines and multiple outcomes. It uses a web format to capture the reality of a young woman in …

Illustration by Ted Barker

Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period is an interactive novel with hundreds of possible storylines and multiple outcomes. It uses a web format to capture the reality of a young woman in Toronto in the early 2000s, allowing the reader to explore different aspects of Lucy’s life and times and the city in which she lives, while following her through the labyrinth of her various futures. Lucy’s fate, like our own, is up in the air, open to negotiation and sudden change.

The author would like to thank Steve Marks, Digital Preservation Librarian at the University of Toronto, for his work updating and preserving Lucy.

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Stephen Marche
Stephen Marche is a Toronto writer. He is currently at work on a book about the risks of civil war in the United States.
Ted Barker
Ted Barker participated in the recent Papier 13 exhibit at the Laroche/Joncas gallery in Montreal.

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